Oct
Munich and Frankfurt are at the forefront worldwide when it comes to the risk of the real estate market overheating, according to the major bank UBS. The two German cities showed clear signs of overheating among 25 metropolises examined, said the Swiss money house. “No other city in the world is as exposed to the
Oct
For many decades, a number of urban master plans have defined where tall buildings can be built in Frankfurt. Since 1998, the city has been trying to group high-rise buildings into defined clusters instead of letting them spread uncontrolled across the city. The result is today's dense Frankfurt skyline. In the last twenty years or
Mar
You currently read on a weekly basis about rising prices for real estate. Regardless of whether it is for condominiums or if you live for rent: property prices have almost doubled in many areas of the Frankfurt city region. Although a lot is being built, high-priced apartments or micro-apartments are often built. More and more
Jan
Following the Conservatives' clear victory in the UK election in December 2019, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has reaffirmed his plan to lead Britain out of the EU by the end of January 2020. With the clear victory, a second referendum on leaving the EU is now clearly off the table. Boris Johnson now wants
Nov
People from all over the world are fascinated by Frankfurt. Not just because of the skyscrapers, but also because of them. We think of specific skyscrapers that have shaped and promoted the acceptance of tall buildings in Frankfurt over many decades.Buildings such as MesseTurm, Commerzbank Tower and Westend 1 are distinctively and for everyone recognizably
Nov
Idea competitions for architecture are a nice thing. That's because in the end you always get the best result, you might think. But what can be the problem in an architecture competition? Renowned architecture firms are usually invited to a competition to submit their ideas. But it happens again and again that the design that
Jun
Experts see the high-rise master plan as a double-edged sword: the idea of high-rise limitations is fundamentally welcome, for example to protect certain residential areas, but the implementation has not yet been stringent. The problem is that certain locations are cemented for decades and can bypass the requirements. In the last 10 years, many unimaginative
Sep
A high-rise is not arbitrarily built to a certain height. How tall one can construct on a particular lot is decided neither by the architect nor the owner: it is set out in the corresponding development plan. Those interested will observe, however, that there is sometimes a discrepancy between the development plan and the actual
Sep
Frankfurt has a famous skyline. On an international scale, though, we are rather modest. As anyone who has graced cities such as New York City, Toronto, or Chicago knows, Frankfurt still has much potential to unleash. In the foreign media, this sounded different in the past: Frankfurt would be provincial, boring, or a "Canary Wharf
Jul
Brexit is beginning to throw more and more shadows ahead. This could become the first rental in Frankfurt, clearly partly due to Brexit: according to media reports, Morgan Stanley is to occupy several floors in the high-rise project OmniTurm. So far, it is unclear where Morgan Stanley would go if the planned UK exit from
Jul
SKYLINE ATLAS is looking for traces in terms of Brexit and urban development. An on-site visit to London by an employee of J.P. Morgan: It is a Saturday morning. I am flying British Airways from Frankfurt to London at 7.15. After more than an hour flight I arrived: I do not land in Heathrow this
Jun
Frankfurt is finally deciding to expand in order to allow for further growth of inhabitants, with a new city district now revealed. Mayor Peter Feldmann (SPD) presented the proposal of the Roman coalition of CDU, SPD and Greens for the location of the new district. In the west of the Frankfurt city area, the new
May
The Frankfurt planning representative, Mike Josef (SPD) intends to allow new high-rise developments in Frankfurt only in clearly defined areas. As is apparent from various press publications in the last few days, "speculation" is to be counteracted. The new high-rise plan, which is to be presented next year, is intended to cement appropriate development requirements.
Jan
Discussion surrounding the former police department at the heart of the republic, located between the fair and the main station, is slowly turning tragic: the old venerable building is empty and forfeited. Since the departure of the police, several attempts have failed to renew the site. The city of Frankfurt am Main has the right
Jan
Tall buildings are, to a large extent, stagings and presentations of economic power. Each new design serves as an eye-catcher to exhibit a visualisation of the client's own initiative and risk profile. High-rise buildings have always been impressive, but they've also attracted criticism, far more so than other types of modern architecture in their 120-year
Dec
Real estate investors see buildings mainly as investments that must yield profits. The fact that investment in the construction sector is so very profitable is not a matter of course. To do this, construction on the market has to meet demand, both in terms of its quality and price. For investors, therefore, capital is merely
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